قَالَ لِي أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) إِذَا أَرَادَ أَحَدُكُمْ شَيْئاً فَلْيُصَلِّ رَكْعَتَيْنِ ثُمَّ لْيَحْمَدِ اللَّهَ وَ لْيُثْنِ عَلَيْهِ وَ لْيُصَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَ أَهْلِ بَيْتِهِ وَ يَقُولُ اللَّهُمَّ إِنْ كَانَ هَذَا الْأَمْرُ خَيْراً لِي فِي دِينِي وَ دُنْيَايَ فَيَسِّرْهُ لِي وَ اقْدِرْهُ وَ إِنْ كَانَ غَيْرَ ذَلِكَ فَاصْرِفْهُ عَنِّي فَسَأَلْتُهُ أَيَّ شَيْءٍ أَقْرَأُ فِيهِمَا فَقَالَ اقْرَأْ فِيهِمَا مَا شِئْتَ وَ إِنْ شِئْتَ قَرَأْتَ فِيهِمَا قُلْ هُوَ اللَّهُ أَحَدٌ وَ قُلْ يَا أَيُّهَا الْكَافِرُونَ .
Translation
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ali Bin Hadeed, from Murazam who said, ‘Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> said to me: ‘Whenever one of you intends something, so let him pray two Rak’at of <span class="iTxt">Salāt</span>, then let him Praise Allah<sup>azwj</sup> and let him Laud upon Him<sup>azwj</sup>, and let him send Blessings upon Muhammad<sup>saww</sup> and the People<sup>asws</sup> of his<sup>saww</sup> Household, and he should be saying, ‘O Allah<sup>azwj</sup>! If this matter was good for me in my Religion, and my world, so Make it easier for me; and if it was other than that, so Exchange it from me’. So I asked him<sup>asws</sup>, ‘Which thing should I recite in these two?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Recite in these two whatever you so desire to, and if you so desire to, recite in these two <span class="ibTxt"><a href="/#/books/quran:112#h1"><a href="/books/quran:112#h1">[112:1]</a></a> Say He Allah is One</span> (Chapter 112) and <span class="ibTxt"><a href="/#/books/quran:109#h1"><a href="/books/quran:109#h1">[109:1]</a></a> Say: O you unbelievers!</span> Chapter 109)’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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